Bio

Lizz Murphy is an Irish-Australian award winning poet with twelve poetry and anthology titles.
Her recent poetry can also be found in journals including Abridged Online (Ire), Aesthetica (UK),
Australian Love Poems (Inkerman & Blunt), Cordite, Rabbit, Right Now: Australian Human Rights,
Shot Glass (US), Under the Basho (US), The Wonder Book of Poetry. She was Highly Commended
in the 2013 Blake Poetry Prize.

Lizz Murphy

Looking For The Poetry In Bones

I draw my pen like a freshly cleaned beak through my feathers
First the left wing then the right And each and every one of the tail
it fans the sun I am on my high perch this deadened branch
I know she watches me from the bird hide of her dining room window
Her lookout The glass has become her eye She thinks I don't know this

I return to perform again my most intimate routines
in her full view so she can see herself more kindly